This new creation replaces Marenbon's best-selling versions Early Medieval Philosophy (1983) and Later Medieval Philosophy (1987) to give a unmarried authoritative and finished research of the interval. It offers a lucid and fascinating account of the historical past of philosophy within the center a long time, discussing the most writers and concepts, the social and highbrow contexts, and the real thoughts utilized in medieval philosophy.

Wagner was once one of many few significant composers who studied philosophy heavily. Bryan Magee locations the composer's creative improvement within the context of the philosophy of his age, and offers us the 1st specified and entire research of the shut hyperlinks among Wagner and the philosophers - from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach and Schopenhauer.